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Blue Care honoured with grants, hall of fame

Blue Care nurse Lista Tranter (left) with Sister Olive Smith (nee Crombie), who was the first Blue Nurse in 1953.

Not-for-profit service provider Blue Care will launch new programs to care for people with dementia. Journey reports. Blue Care has received $243 000 in grant funding to implement programs to care for people with dementia. The grant funding was awarded by a coalition of philanthropic groups: the Perpetual Foundation—John Thomas Wilson Endowment, the Gladys Myrtle Brown Charitable Trust and the ...

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UnitingCare Australia welcomes more government support

Photo by McBeth. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

The government has announced a new initiative consisting of $54.4 million in funding over four years for people with severe symptoms of dementia in residential care facilities. “It is very good news,” said Lin Hatfield Dodds, National Director of UnitingCare Australia. “Our agencies provide the largest share of aged care in the country and we are consistently hearing that the ...

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